NBC Tees Up Wolff to Call Trump ‘Child,’ ‘Moron,’ ‘Idiot’

While she did grill Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff on his serious credibility issues during Friday’s exclusive Today show interview, NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie also provided the anti-Trump author with a platform to repeatedly hurl personal insults at the President. Wolff claimed that senior White House officials thought Trump was a “child,” “moron,” and “idiot,” among other nasty labels.
Kyle Drennen

Someone Doesn’t Get Credit: CBS Touts Congress for Stock Boom

CBS This Morning journalists on Friday actually credited the booming stock market, touting it breaking 25,000 as a “wow!” moment. Yet, while Congress, tax cuts and mysterious deregulation got praise, Donald Trump’s name was never mentioned. Asked by co-host Norah O’Donnell for the cause, Hobson gushed, “Wow! That is all I can say. It’s quite a start! We broke through lots and lots of records last…
Scott Whitlock

Nets Refuse to Cover FBI Opening New Clinton Foundation Investigation

To the shock of no one (at least in the NewsBusters newsroom), the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored on Friday morning the stunning revelation that the Clinton Foundation is under FBI investigation for possible crimes while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. FNC’s Fox & Friends was the only cable or network morning show to confirm and cover the story, spending eight…
Curtis Houck

Joe Scarborough Compares 'Red State' Americans To Iranian Theocrats

On Friday’s Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius tried to explain the current anti-government protests in Iran by painting a broader picture of a “red state Iran” and a “blue state Iran.” Scarborough described “red state Iran” as a place that “wanted to keep the mullahs in charge,” whereas “[b]lue state Iran wanted to move Iran into the 20th century.”
Chris Reeves

Cold Snap: Media Hypocritically Freak After Trump Global Warming Tweet

As much of the U.S. shivers under extreme cold, the liberal media lashed out at President Donald Trump over a tweet about global warming, portraying him as stupid or confused about the difference between weather and climate. Trump had tweeted, “In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not…
Julia A. Seymour

Jen Rubin: Republicans 'Betrayed Their Country' by Defending Trump

Appearing as a guest on Thursday's All In with Chris Hayes, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin declared that Republicans who have defended President Donald Trump "have really betrayed their country." She went on to similarly assert that Republicans in Congress "seriously are doing a grave injustice to the country."
Brad Wilmouth

Chuck Todd Overtalks Criticism of FBI Leadership by Congressman

Don "Dr. No! No!" Lemon of CNN shouts down contrary opinions he doesn't want to let his audience hear. Chuck Todd has a bit more subtle yet equally annoying method of accomplishing the stifling of inconvenient facts. He overtalks the interviewee. The more uncomfortable the fact is to liberal orthodoxy, the more desperately Todd performs his overtalk shtick. An example of Todd overtalking in…
P.J. Gladnick

Stephanopoulos Grills Spicer on ‘Basically True’ Trump Gossip Book

Friday morning on ABC’s Good Morning America, veteran anchor and former President Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos grilled Sean Spicer over the newly released controversial White House book by journalist Michael Wolff. Repeatedly, Stephanopoulos demanded Spicer confirm the sleazy gossip as accurate, and accused Trump of violating the First Amendment by trying to halt its publication.
Kristine Marsh

Wolff in Journalist’s Clothing? Author ‘Said Whatever Was Necessary'

As Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie repeatedly questioned his credibility on Friday, Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff declared that he stood by “absolutely everything” in his Trump-trashing book. Despite that assertion, he later admitted to using deceptive tactics: “I certainly said what was ever necessary to get the story.”
Kyle Drennen

Eight Times the Liberal Media Screwed Up on Trump-Russia in 2017

On Tuesday, President Trump tweeted he would be “announcing THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR” on Monday “in various categories from the Fake News Media." There’s bias, but then there’s sheer incompetence. The biggest media obsession last year was the search for evidence of Trump’s supposed collusion with Russia, in the process, liberal reporters in 2017 repeatedly…

Curtis Houck and Rich Noyes

MSNBC Republican: Trump Team Worse Than 'Monkeys Hurling Excrement'

One of MSNBC’s fake Republicans, Steve Schmidt demonstrated just how much he loathes the Trump administration on Thursday when he launched into an angry tirade during The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell and declared of the Trump team: “And truly when you look at their comportment in this majestic place in the West Wing of the White House, they couldn't be more vile than if they were monkeys…
Nicholas Fondacaro

USA's 'Damnation' Showcases Racists as Embracing Patriotism

It has become a standard trope for the Trump era: patriotism is racist. And, although USA’s Damnation takes place during the Depression Era, it's not a stretch to think a racist group calling themselves patriots is supposed to parallel liberal fears of Neo-Nazis, the KKK, and other bigots of today.
Lindsay Kornick and Alexa Moutevelis

Camerota Bristles at Newsmax Boss Calling Her Out As 'Liberal Media'

On Thursday's New Day on CNN, just two hours after her show came down decidedly on the liberal side of the issues of voter fraud and disenfranchisement, CNN host Alisyn Camerota denied that her show is part of the "liberal media" when Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy took a jab at her while defending President Donald Trump.
Brad Wilmouth

NBC News Comedy Admits 'Impartiality in Journalism Is Dead'

NBC's newsroom comedy Great News let the cat out of the bag on the sorry state of modern journalism: If you want to make it in the news biz, you can't be impartial, you have to pick a side and create drama.
Amelia Hamilton